The Museum of Contemporary Art (MNK) has been accommodated since December 1999 in
courts 1 and 2 of the former munitions factory that now houses the
Center for Art and Media (ZKM)
in Karlsruhe. Distributed over three levels with total
floor space exceeding 7,000m2, the museum shows a selection of works on permanent loan
from the important Baden-Württemberg private collections
Siegfried Weishaupt,
Froehlich,
FER and
Grässlin.
Contemporary art trends are highlighted in changing focal presentations. Important
examples of European and American art offer an insight into the development of art
from 1960 up to the present. At the same time, such overviews emphasize the distinctive
profile of the four private collections.